If Watergate happened here, guilty parties would still be off the hook

LATE on Tuesday of last week I got in to Dallas for the first time since I left there in 1973.

The big news that night was that Mark Felt, the former deputy director of the FBI had announced that he was Deep Throat, the man who guided Bob Woodward in exposing the Watergate story. I woke up next morning to find that Watergate was dominating television coverage.

G Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, Chuck Colson and John Dean - who all went to jail for their parts in the Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up - were on television moralising and questioning the motives of Mark Felt.